On the first night of the statewide music festival, a flute prodigy disappears under mysterious circumstances – was it suicide? Murder? Some kind of prank? Now a cast of eccentrics – including musical twins Rabbit and Alice Hatmaker, their dark horse of a chaperone Natalie Wilson, mad Scottish conductor Fisher Brodie, icy head of the festival Viola Fabian, amateur sleuth-concierge Harold Hastings, and Minnie Graves, who witnessed a murder-suicide at the Bellweather 15 years ago and has returned to face her fears – must not only solve the mystery of the missing flautist, but, after a massive snowstorm traps them all in the hotel, survive the weekend. Set in 1997 at the once grand and now-crumbling Bellweather Hotel in the Catskills while it hosts a weekend conference for student musicians, Bellweather Rhapsody is a genre-bendy mystery, thriller, love and ghost story, that’s also as close to a musical in novel form as I could write.

Your second novel, Bellweather Rhapsody, hits the bookstore shelves on May 13 th. She will also be participating at the next Craft on Draft event, where she will be discussing “How do you create your characters?” with Dead Darlings authors Jennie Wood and E.B. Kate will be celebrating the launch of Bellweather Rhapsody at Brookline Booksmith on May 13, 2014, at 7:00 p.m. Kate talked to Dead Darlings about the inspiration for her new novel, how writing and launching a second novel is different than the first, and the character she wrote for David Tennant. Kate Racculia is the author of This Must Be the Place, and the forthcoming Bellweather Rhapsody, which hits the bookstore shelves on May 13 th.

Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia